Natural Disasters Strikes: I stockpiled like crazy! - Chapter 103

Chapter 103: Metal Rats
[Congratulations! You leveled up!]

[Player Name: Lu Nanzhi]

[Level: 10 (120 /7, 500 EXP)]

New function! New function!

Nanzhi curled her lips into a smile but when she saw the EXP needed for the next upgrade, she wilted.

7, 500?

It’s like watching yourself close on reaching the end goal, only to start again and this time the race course if longer.

Will she ever achieved financial and information freedom in this life?

Regardless, it’s not the time to be distracted.

“The fourth wave is incoming!” Bingwen announced before climbing up and coating the baluster, rails and steps of the 9th floor staircase with vegetable oil.

Nanzhi and the others were wearing boots with non-slip soles and it works perfectly with the funnel strategy.

Nanzhi mentally counted the prompts in her vision.

Although the numbers of rats are still more than a thousand, the numbers of those with tiers had dwindled by third quarter.

Most of the remaining rats are without ranks. [Black Rat].

The experience she received from them is only a pitiful 2 EXP and that’s already after triggering the double EXP event.

That’s the reason Nanzhi had been aiming for those alien beasts with tiers from the start, leaving the weak ones to Bingwen and Hei Qian.

However despite tierless, compared to ordinary rats, their sizes were a circle bigger.

Bingwen and Hei Qian also noticeably felt that the rat tide was easier to handle than in the beginning.

Earlier, they had to fire multiple shots to take one down, because the first shot only made the large rat stop for a few seconds before it started to move again.

In their mind, there is no difference between the rats besides their sizes and every rat’s strength is the same.

Time continued to pass.

While everyone here is busy eliminating the rat tide, Feng Ran and Yu Baoyin were coming out of the unit carrying weapons, flashlight, and backpacks full of crushed bay leaves and peppermint oil spray.

“You can go now.” Nanzhi’s words rang through the satellite phone on Yu Baoyin’s hand.

“Okay, Sister Nan. How are you doing there? Is everything okay?” Yu Baoyin quickly asked.

“Hey, keep your voice down.” Feng Ran made a shushing sound.

“We’re fine. Watch your back. If you see a rat, smash it like what you did to your ex’s butt.” Nanzhi replied.

Yu Baoyin’s face immediately turned red. “Sister Nan, why did you bring that up?” That’s her dark history!

Feng Ran couldn’t help but be curious, “Wait, what is she talking about?”

Yu Baoyin instantly said, “Don’t ask.” Earlier, she was very afraid facing the rats but with Nanzhi’s dark humour, her fear lessened.

“Do you have a speaker for a vocal chord. Why are you so loud?” Feng Ran clicked his tongue.

This Feng Ran! She had the urge to smack his butt too!

Yu Baoyin didn’t argue anymore and focused on the task.

Their job was to spread the crushed bay leaves and peppermint oil sprayed around after the others lure the rats elsewhere.

The moment they saw all the rats from the first floor went out through the monitor, they quickly climbed down the stairs to the first floor.

Thankfully, the rats seem to love Sister Nan’s bait and all of them were lured away.

[Level 10 (1, 950/ 7, 500)]

Nanzhi checked her progress and numbers of EXP rats left.

There are only less than a hundred left.

Two blocks away from the Empire Building, in the underground sewers full of carcasses and piles of bones, four pairs of scarlet eyes flickered in the dark abyss, after sensing what’s happening above.

Angry, they let out long squeaking noises before climbing the ladder and emerging from the manhole.

Once they are out, one could see their nails were half a foot long, silver and it was glinting with sharpness.

“Squeak!”

…

“Check your ammo.” Nanzhi asked while replacing the magazine of her rifle.

“I’m down to three.” Bingwen answered.

Hei Qian: Two for me.

“I’m fine.” Lin Weihao had a space to store ammos.

Nanzhi fished out 10 loaded magazines from her backpack and tossed it Bingwen and Hei Qian.

[Countdown Timer: 1 hour: 32 minutes: 40 seconds]

Time continued to tick by and Nanzhi’s EXP bar kept increasing.

[Level 10 (2, 950/ 7, 500)]

[Level 10 (3, 206/ 7, 500)]

[….3, 460/ 7, 500]

[.…4, 200/ 7, 500]

At this point, only less than an hour left on the timer and the end of the tide could already be seen.

[Countdown Timer: 42 minutes: 40 seconds]

[.…5, 200 7, 500]

Just 2, 300 EXP more, she would be able to upgrade another level!

Nanzhi thought everything would be smooth sailing, but when the timer struck at [30 minutes: 0 seconds], everyone saw some nails flying towards them.

Nanzhi and the others dodged it.

When they turned around, they saw the nails hit the wall behind them.

It’s an alien beast with an attribute.

She was wondering why there wasn’t any for a while. Turns out, these tide was just pawn or scouts.

“Retreat!” Lin Weihao quickly pushed the stunned Hei Qian to the 10th floor. “But Brother Lin!”

“Just go, we’ll come after you.”

Seeing that Lin Weihao’s stubbornness, Bingwen followed Hei Qian up, helping him set up the next funnel point.

On the tenth floor, he positioned himself and covered for the two below.

Due to the appearance of the new rats, the remaining tide became more aggressive.

Nanzhi hurriedly looked down and noticed a new prompts.

[Mid Stage Tier 1 Black Rat]

[Attribute: Metal]

You could at least give me a heads up.

Nanzhi said in her mind.

[If you kill them, they’ll give you 75 EXP each and it’s still without the Double EXP benefits.]

Nanzhi blinked her eyes. She was obviously moved.

150 EXP?

There are four of them, meaning she can gain 600 EXP?

The Attribute Alien Beasts become pieces of fat jades in her eyes.

“Squeak!” The four rats jumped on top of the rats that were stuck on the planks and attack Lu Nanzhi and Lin Weihao.

They brandished their long nails and bared their sharp teeth. They scarlet eyes exuded extreme anger.

“Squeak!”

“Brother Lin! Miss Lu!” Bingwen shouted, noticing the new four rats were entirely different from the rest they encountered.

What the heck are those long nails!

It’s the length of a small knife!

Nanzhi didn’t panic and threw something towards their eyes.

“SQUEEEEEEEAK!”